News updates from our campaigns up across Africa and the planet.
When we went to Eskom headquarters yesterday , what we wanted to do was highlight the fact that coal kills, and call on Eskom to stop construction on Kusile and start investing in renewable energy instead. Until they change course,...
Non-violent direct action is at the heart of what Greenpeace does in our mission to expose crimes against the world we live in, and find real solutions. Internationally, these actions are probably what Greenpeace is best known for.
Yesterday Naomi Naidoo sent her father a letter for father's day. As you may know, her father, kumi Naidoo, is the head of Greenpeace and is currently in jail in Greenland after he scaled an Artic oil rig. This is Kumi's response...
Today eleven activists appear in a Danish court facing serious charges for a simple act of protest in Copenhagen a year and a half ago, while Greenpeace International Executive Director Kumi Naidoo remains in a Greenlandic jail...
>> Read Kumi's response to this letter here . Early yesterday morning Kumi Naidoo, the Global head of Greenpeace, scaled the Arctic oil rig we have been trying to stop over recent months. Like the 18 Greenpeace activists who were...
At 6:45 am this morning an inflatable speedboat carrying Kumi was launched from the Greenpeace ship Esperanza. It evaded a Danish navy warship that has been circling the rig for several weeks and delivered Kumi to the base of the rig...
For the African Voices tour , three West African fishermen travelled to the UK to speak out about the harsh reality of the UK's hunger for fish: while their communities rely on the seas for vital protein, industrial-sized European...
Led by Berlusconi, Italy can be a strange place. But amidst the madness comes a little sanity. This week, Italians were asked to vote on the use of nuclear energy, and almost 95% were in favour of a nuclear-free future! It's...
Over the past few weeks we’ve been campaigning to stop risky oil drilling in the Arctic – by taking direct action up here off the Greenland coast and by shining a light on Cairn Energy’s failure to publish its oil spill response plan...
Today our fight for the Arctic moves from the frozen seas of Greenland into the courts of Amsterdam and Greenland. Following our first occupation of its oil rig at the beginning of last week Cairn filed for an injunction with...
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